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> 
> > > Mar  3 13:39:40 trinity syslog: /etc/pwd.db: Invalid argument
> > I've seen this also. Do you have any chroot'ed daemons running? I suspect
> 
> my 2.1.7 does this too, no chroots...

I ran into this myself one day; don't exactly remember the circumstances,
but recompiling my pwd.db made it go away.

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